A person has recalled the horrifying moment a driver appeared to be ‘off his head’ before he crashed his vehicle and caused a 12 car pile-up on a major highway.
Emergency services were called to the multi-vehicle crash along the M1 near Tallebudgera Creek Road exit at Burleigh Heads, Queensland, at 10.20am on Sunday.
‘We witnessed this accident. It was truly terrifying,’ she said.
‘He was all over the road (like there weren’t any lanes or other vehicles on the road) and we knew it was a matter of seconds before he had an accident.’
The driver claimed the man appeared to be ‘on something’ while behind the wheel.
He is currently fighting for life after he suffered extensive wounds to his throat.
He was taken to Gold Coast University Hospital in a critical condition.
Officers allege the man caused the multi-vehicle crash and have placed him under police guard at the hospital.
A woman in her 60s suffered neck and shoulder pain and was taken to John Flynn Private Hospital.
All southbound lanes were closed before they were reopened by police later in the day.
The horror crash comes as families around the country hit the road to celebrate Father’s Day.
It is the second devastating crash of the weekend after a father and son were killed following a two-vehicle crash on the M1 motorway along the Central Coast, NSW.
The 46-year-old father and his 14-year-old son were in their Commodore station wagon when it became bogged on a grass median strip at 9am on Saturday.
A 27-year-old driver then lost control of his four-wheel drive and spun into the median strip crashing into the station wagon.